Garrett on penalties: ‘We weren’t as clean as we needed to be’

IRVING – The Cowboys were an undisciplined lot in Sunday’s 17-3 win at Philadelphia, drawing a season-high 12 penalties for 75 yards.

Right tackle Doug Free led the flag parade with three false starts. Left guard Ronald Leary and defensive end Jason Vega each committed two penalties.

“We just weren’t as clean as we needed to be, really on both sides of the ball,” coach Jason Garrett said. “Before the snap, we had four false starts on offense and some of them had to do with being in the shotgun and noise and all that. We just didn’t handle that as well as we needed too. They got us on some hard counts on defense. One of them happened on an interception that we had in the ballgame, those are significant plays we got to do a better job of cleaning that stuff up.”